Nolo's Crash Course in Small Business Basics: How to Run a Business from Opening Day to Tax Day!

Nolo's Crash Course in Small Business Basics gives you the information you need to get a business launched quickly and running smoothly. From effective marketing & advertising to the nitty-gritty of business finance to practical matters that affect the daily bottom line, this five-disc series covers all of the essentials.

Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business

In 1986, fresh out of college, Paul Downs opened his first and last business: a small company that built custom furniture. With no idea how to run a business or how to build custom furniture, Downs spent a year teaching himself the business, and in 1987 he hired his first employee. That was when things got complicated.

Did you know the typical small business owner works three to four months just to earn enough profit to pay taxes? Whether you've been in business for several decades or are breaking ground as a new entrepreneur, taxes are a significant expenditure. They must be accounted for and incorporated into your business plan from the very beginning. Failing to account for taxes when planning, budgeting, and assessing revenue goals for a business is like failing to account for the expense of your rent or mortgage.

Accounting for the Numberphobic: A Survival Guide for Small Business

By the time you've finished Accounting for the Numberphobic, you'll be reading your financial dashboard like a pro. This audiobook takes the terror out of accounting, as it demystifies - in plain English - documents like the Net Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Balance Sheet.

The Tax and Legal Playbook provides 28 comprehensive tax and legal questions facing small business owners, across all stages of business. Mark J. Kohler delivers a comprehensive playbook of clear-cut truths, thought-provoking advice, and underutilized solutions to save you time, money, and heartache. Each chapter contains stories and case studies to help explain and illustrate powerful strategies that can save you thousands of dollars!

Having a clear knowledge of your business's financial life is important. No one should be in the dark about their overall financial picture. That's a disaster waiting to happen. However, with a perfunctory knowledge of basic accounting principles, including assets and liabilities, creating financial statements, budgeting, and more, you'll be on the road to healthier relationship with your money.

Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) have increased in popularity over the last few decades. Entrepreneurs across the world learn about the numerous liability and tax advantages of LLCs, and are quick to start the paperwork to form their own entity and get their business off the ground.

Taxes & Accounting for Small Businesses - QuickStart Guides: The Simplified Beginner's Guides to Taxes & Accounting for Small Businesses

A business that neglects its taxes is a business living on borrowed time. But there's no need to despair. Getting your business on the right side of its tax burden is easier than you think. This QuickStart Guide from ClydeBank Business will help you lay the groundwork of a sustainable business tax strategy. You'll learn how to proactively minimize your tax obligations and how to maneuver your way out of trouble should you ever fall behind.

The Daily Entrepreneur: 33 Success Habits for Small Business Owners, Freelancers and Aspiring 9-to-5 Escape Artists

In the book, The Daily Entrepreneur, we talk about the power of habit development and show how to use it to overcome your specific challenges. What makes this book different is it's organized according to obstacles that we all face on a daily basis.

Building a Small Business that Warren Buffett Would Love

Every great business - whether it's a popular pizza restaurant or a baby formula maker - is built on the same core fundamentals. Warren Buffett figured out this universal business truth at an early age, and used it to turn an initial investment of $105,000 into a massive $40 billion fortune. Building a Small Business that Warren Buffett Would Love takes this sound investment methodology and adapts it for small business owners looking to build, grow, or improve their own businesses.

Duct Tape Marketing (Revised and Updated): The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide

Learn to make your small business marketing as simple, effective, and affordable as duct tape. In Duct Tape Marketing, renowned small business marketing guru John Jantsch shows you how to develop and execute a marketing plan that will give your business the life and longevity you want. In this audiobook you will learn the Duct Tape Marketing system and how to apply its principles to your business by following three steps. This audiobook provides proven, yet elegantly simple tools to help you grow your small business.

How to Start a Business: Easy Step by Step Guide to Starting a Small Business

Have you ever wanted to start a small business? Have you ever thought it was tough to do so? Unsure of how to get started? There's so much information out there on the Internet, and so many self-help gurus, that it either takes time to put all the information together or you have to pay top dollar to have a guru explain it to you. My name is Susan Kilmer. Over the course of my business and entrepreneurship background, I have taught hundreds and hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs how to start a business and business owners how to keep their business going.

This comprehensive guide to legal deductions, credits, and loopholes covers rules of thumb for record-keeping and how to stay organized, secrets to mortgage, tax and insurance deductions, maximizing work-related expenses, making the most of medical expenses and health savings accounts, strategies for utilizing deductions and credits for education, and lots of tips on how to make more money - some of it tax-free!

Small Business Big Money Online: A Proven System to Optimize eCommerce Websites and Increase Internet Profits

In this book you will learn the five-step marketing optimization system to scale and grow your bottom line. This proven method is used to increase the percentage of visitors to your site that convert into customers. You will learn to gather intelligence through qualitative insight and quantitative data and then execute successful split testing to increase sales and leads.Small Business Big Money Online will give you direct, actionable advice and techniques that you can simply apply to your own process, developing your own system along the way.

Robert Davila says:"This Book Is Guaranteed To Show You How Much You Don't Know"

Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever. These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.

Go Solo: How to Quit the Job You Hate and Start a Small Business You Love! You Can Break Free from Your Day Job, Start Your Side Hustle from Home, and Achieve Success as a Solopreneur!

Have you been waiting to leave your suffocating day job? Have you been wondering if you should turn your side hustle or hobby into your own business? Have you struggled with how or when to launch? Go Solo has your answers. First, Humphreys tackles how to know you're picking the right business for you. This book is not about start ups, apps, or making easy money online.

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.

Publisher's Summary

For a comprehensive, easy-to-read, A-to-Z library of everything a small business owner would need to know about starting and succeeding in business, consult The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Small Business, 2nd Edition.

Discover candid advice, effective techniques, insider information, and success secrets that will boost you confidence. This updated editions is even more accessible, with easy-to-follow information from starting, running, and growing a business to new chapters on green business practices, technology tips, and marketing tools.

This was a good listen. It was packed with information to fertilize ideas about starting a new business, or making a small business better. There was so much detail, I decided to buy the book because it seemed more suited to reference than a casual listen. The narrator read the lists and tables in painful detail. I would have preferred a separate attachment for reference. You may find as I did that the written book is a necessary companion to the audio book.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

No it was not time or money well spent for me. This book is extremely basic. I am talking high school level explanations for each baby step detailed on why you should or should not start a business. Would you like to hear the narrator ask the same questions to you throughout the book? Not profound questions, just wimpy questions like "Are you a motivated self starter?" "Is your family prepared for you to take on this responsibility?" "Do you like to work hard?"

Would you be willing to try another book from Steven D. Strauss? Why or why not?

No I was not a fan of his elementary explanations that can be found by doing a simple internet search.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Where is the substance? I have only been in business 4 years as an entrepreneur so I thought I had lots to learn. Well I still think I have lots to learn because I didn't learn very much at all from this entire audiobook, which seemed long. The best information I received was some websites to go to for more detailed information.

Was The Small Business Bible, Second Edition worth the listening time?

No I wish I had not purchase it. This book is designed for someone who is not already in business. Someone with no idea on where to start or what to consider when starting a business.

Any additional comments?

Do you consider yourself someone with no direction in life and has no idea who they are or what their strengths/weaknesses are? You don't know where to turn for resources or help? Then you may find this book helpful. If you are already on a strong willed path to success you can skip this book and go to one with more complex material and strategies.

i guess this book is more for those who are starting medium level business not the small businesses , however there are few tips for small basic tips but those you will need when you reach the medium level, there are dome potential advice , tops and tricks , voice is sober but i got bored after couple hours. this is very good book for people starting from100k-500k ,

Better for USA than UK. But a lot of good advice for any one starting any small businesses.

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Mudar Bahri

United States, California

1/15/12

Overall

"Good for knowing few about many"

This book is good for knowing many things about succeeding in small and mid-sized business. It does not tell many specifics but it opens your eyes on many things that might be needed to support your business. Additionally, this book contains many ideas that are new to some countries so reading it (or listening) will open your mind to great amount of new ideas that can be your small business itself such as being a virtual assistant to somebody, or renting space for very short periods, etc.

It is an excellent choice if you want to start thinking about what to do.

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